Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context

Rui P. Chaves

ISBN 10: 1009663836 / ISBN 13: 9781009663830

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In null instantiation (NI) an optionally unexpressed argument receives either anaphoric or existential interpretation. One cannot accurately predict a predicator's NI potential based either on semantic factors (e.g., Aktionsart class of the verb) or pragmatic factors (e.g., relative discourse prominence of arguments), but NI potential, while highly constrained, is not simply lexical idiosyncrasy. It is instead the product of both lexical and constructional licensing. In the latter case, a construction can endow a verb with NI potential that it would not otherwise have. Using representational tools of sign based construction grammar, this Element offers a lexical treatment of English null instantiation that covers both distinct patterns of construal of null-instantiated arguments and the difference between listeme-based and contextually licensed, thus construction-based, null complementation.

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• Titolo: Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009663836
• ISBN 13: 9781009663830
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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This Element provides a lexical analysis of English null instantiation, highlighting null complementation patterns.